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The city council of Greensville has passed a new law in an effort to r [#permalink] New post   25 Feb 2022, 05:00
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The city council of Greensville has passed a new law in an effort to relieve the city’s overworked sanitation department. Businesses in Greenville have taken to depositing their trash in the bins provided for the public litter. By quickly overfilling these trash cans with commercial waste, the practice forces the sanitation department to work overtime in order to clear them. The new law, however, imposes a $250 fine on any business caught placing its trash in public receptacles.


The argument above relies on which of the following assumptions?

A. The public will not place litter in bins already overflowing with waste from businesses.

B. The sanitation department does have enough workers to empty the trash bins in a timely fashion.

C. The amount of the fine and the risk of getting caught are sufficiently high enough to deter business owners from using public trash bins.

D. Clearing out public trash receptacles is the sanitation department’s most important job.

E. Businesses typically pay private companies to remove the excessive amount of trash they generate.

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Re: The city council of Greensville has passed a new law in an effort to r [#permalink] New post   08 Mar 2022, 05:35
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This is an assumption question. The conclusion and the premise are:

Premise: Businesses caught putting trash in public bins will be fined $250.

Conclusion: The new law will relieve the city’s overworked sanitation department.

In order for this law to truly reduce the work done by the sanitation department, you must assume that the fine or the threat of the fine will be sufficient to stop businesses from putting trash in the bins. If that assumption isn’t true, then the argument falls apart. Choice C states this assumption.

Choice A is not part of the argument, which deals with the businesses’ actions, not the public’s.

Choice B adds new information that is not part of the argument so eliminate it. It does not matter if cleaning out the public bins is the department’s most important job, so choice D is irrelevant.

Choice E also adds new information that isn’t necessary to the argument.

Answer: C.
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